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Executive and Legislative documents laid before the General Assembly of North-Carolina [1869; 1870]

84 Document l^o. 26. [Session
sand}'' pine country, considered very healthful. The buildings
are very plain and rough and are badly out of repair. One
hundred acres of very poor land belong to the poorhouse tract.
There are at present no inmates in the poorhouse, the poor
being provided for by commissioners in each township.
PRISON.
The county prison is built of wood, brick and iron. Its size
is 24x36 feet. There are two stories in the building—two
rooms and two cells. Size of rooms, 10x22 feet ; of cells, 10x14.
Two windows to each room and three to each cell, size 4x6
feet. There is no way of warming the prison in consequence of
which the prisoners, in extreme cold weather, suffer from cold.
Three or four blankets are allowed each prisoner. No female
prisoners. Fresh drinking w^ater is furnished twice per day.
No restriction in eating. The prisoners have plenty to eat of
bacon, bread, peas and vegetables. Frequent scouring and
white-washing are resorted to, to preserve the cleanliness of
the prison. Excrement is thrown into a ditlich which carries
it off.
STANLEY COUNTr.
POOEHOUSE.
Located three and one-fourth miles from the county seat. It
consists of two buildings for paupers, one thirty by thirt}'' feet
and the other eighteen by thirty-six. There are five rooms in
the larger building and two in the other. Supply of water
gotten from a well in the yard. The warming of the buildings
is by means of fire-places. The inmates have a plenty of
odinary food. The average weekly cost of each is $1.50. The
buildings are in tolerably good repair. Seventy-one acres of
poor land belong to the poorhouse tract of which eight or ten
acres are in cultivation. Cabbage, turnips, potatoes, &c., are

84 Document l^o. 26. [Session
sand}'' pine country, considered very healthful. The buildings
are very plain and rough and are badly out of repair. One
hundred acres of very poor land belong to the poorhouse tract.
There are at present no inmates in the poorhouse, the poor
being provided for by commissioners in each township.
PRISON.
The county prison is built of wood, brick and iron. Its size
is 24x36 feet. There are two stories in the building—two
rooms and two cells. Size of rooms, 10x22 feet ; of cells, 10x14.
Two windows to each room and three to each cell, size 4x6
feet. There is no way of warming the prison in consequence of
which the prisoners, in extreme cold weather, suffer from cold.
Three or four blankets are allowed each prisoner. No female
prisoners. Fresh drinking w^ater is furnished twice per day.
No restriction in eating. The prisoners have plenty to eat of
bacon, bread, peas and vegetables. Frequent scouring and
white-washing are resorted to, to preserve the cleanliness of
the prison. Excrement is thrown into a ditlich which carries
it off.
STANLEY COUNTr.
POOEHOUSE.
Located three and one-fourth miles from the county seat. It
consists of two buildings for paupers, one thirty by thirt}'' feet
and the other eighteen by thirty-six. There are five rooms in
the larger building and two in the other. Supply of water
gotten from a well in the yard. The warming of the buildings
is by means of fire-places. The inmates have a plenty of
odinary food. The average weekly cost of each is $1.50. The
buildings are in tolerably good repair. Seventy-one acres of
poor land belong to the poorhouse tract of which eight or ten
acres are in cultivation. Cabbage, turnips, potatoes, &c., are